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Flags removed ahead of Pride event = hate crime?

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Windy23 · 31/05/2025 17:40

Not sure how to feel about this. I don't agree with someone taking the flags down but is it really a hate crime?

BBC News - Hate crime probe after Arran Pride flags removed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq3ekyjeveo

A general view of the Pride march in Brodick with a number of people carrying rainbow flags.

Police probe hate crime over removal of pride flags on Arran

Flags were taken down from Brodick's Main Street overnight ahead of the Arran Pride event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq3ekyjeveo

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Datun · 03/06/2025 10:01

suggestionsplease1 · 31/05/2025 21:09

😂 How long have you got?!

I have read posts about people "getting out their tiny violins" or saying "good riddance" to an article about trans people who are talking about leaving the country out of fear in the present climate.

I have read posts describing trans people as sexually deviant and motivated by fetish, mentally ill, criminal.

I have seen posts dedicated to collating crimes that individual trans people have committed. Can you imagine if the same was done for lesbians? That there was a dedicated site out there collating all the crimes ever committed by lesbians in order to create an impression that we are all criminals?

I have seen widespread support for and hero worshiping of Posie Parker aka Kelly Jay Keen, who has called for landlords and employers to refuse housing and employment to trans people simply on the basis of their trans status.

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I have seen posts dedicated to collating crimes that individual trans people have committed. Can you imagine if the same was done for lesbians?

I love this completely inadvertent giveaway that suggestions doesn't believe a bloody word they're saying.

According to the trans ideology that suggestions swears by, loads, if not most, of these men ARE lesbians.

That's the problem with not being able to keep your story straight.

anyolddinosaur · 03/06/2025 10:15

The flags offend me - was it "hate" to put them up? Can I have the person/ people who put them up investigated for a hate crime? If I say I'm lesbian and see them as homophobic will that make a difference?

It may be theft if the flags are not returned, not sure where the "hate" crime comes in.

WithSilverBells · 03/06/2025 10:16

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/06/2025 18:59

Sensible article by Mark Smith here from The Herald. A Pride hate crime on Arran? No, just a sign of where we are now | The Herald

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'Have polias alba found the creature that held up a placard stating decapitate terfs Now that is what I call a hate crime'

Beowulfa · 03/06/2025 10:54

Imagine going back in time to the 1980s and telling people that this amazing thing called The Internet was going to be invented in the future.

"What's it for?"
"We use it to explain to people that lesbians don't have penises."

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Windy23 · 03/06/2025 13:37

The flags offend me - was it "hate" to put them up? Can I have the person/ people who put them up investigated for a hate crime? If I say I'm lesbian and see them as homophobic will that make a difference?

Afraid not, you're the wrong flavour of LGBTQ.

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MagpiePi · 03/06/2025 15:29

Windy23 · 03/06/2025 13:37

The flags offend me - was it "hate" to put them up? Can I have the person/ people who put them up investigated for a hate crime? If I say I'm lesbian and see them as homophobic will that make a difference?

Afraid not, you're the wrong flavour of LGBTQ.

Especially as lesbian = woman.
That has extra wrongness.

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